Zapier is a system that links one app to another, there are literally thousands of apps to choose from including Vincere and WordPress. You choose a trigger (something that happens) and an action (what to do when the trigger happens).
Our Vincere to WordPress Plugin on the other hand was created solely to provide a synchronisation between Vincere and your WordPress website.
We set up some Zapier apps and left them running for a few weeks to see how it fared. The comments below are based on our experience and also talking to our customers who also use Zapier.
Create Job Page when a New job is posted to Vincere
You can create a zap (the term Zapier gives to a process) that will look for new jobs added to Vincere. When it finds one, Zapier will create a new post on your WordPress website. Talking to our customers, this works most of the time which is great. A limitation is that you have just a selection of fields available to sync and it will try and sync all new jobs whether you want them to sync or not.
Zapier Pros
Easy to set up
Inexpensive per zap
Zapier Cons
Not 100% successful
Limited fields available to sync
Will sync all new jobs
Can get expensive if high job turnover
Vincere Plugin Pros
No ongoing fees
Specify exactly which jobs to sync
Sync any field
Sync to custom post type
Vincere Plugin Cons
Longer set up (5 working days)
Initial expense
Remove Job Page when job is filled/closed
We were unable to get Zapier to recognise when a job was filled or closed, similarly Zapier seems unable to remove WordPress posts.
Zapier Pros
None
Zapier Cons
No available zaps
Vincere Plugin Pros
Job removed from WordPress once it moves out of live criteria
Ability to keep job page live, but turn off applications and visibility in job lists (for SEO)
Vincere Plugin Cons
None
Create Candidate in Vincere
Unfortunately we nor our customers have managed to find a way to create a candidate in Vincere once an application form has been completed on your website. We can create a contact, but not a candidate.
Zapier Pros
None
Zapier Cons
You cannot create a candidate
Vincere Plugin Pros
Check for existing candidate
Prevent duplications
Create candidate
Populate any candidate field
Vincere Plugin Cons
None
Create Application in Vincere
Again it seems that Zapier is unable to create a job application within Vincere. Another easy win for our plugin
Zapier Pros
None
Zapier Cons
You cannot create a job submission
Vincere Plugin Pros
Job Application created
Application appears in Vincere just like a manual entry
Vincere Plugin Cons
None
Conclusion
There is much more to our plugin than the three features above, but these are the main features you will need when adding your Vincere jobs to your WordPress website.
You could get by with a Zapier integration if all you need is to display jobs on to your website. A developer will need to style the job posts for you and you will need to remove jobs manually. You could also use a plugin to remove posts that are xx days old to remove jobs from your WordPress website.
If you want to accept job applications and create candidates, our plugin has you covered. Upon form submission, we check Vincere to see whether the candidate pre-exists, if they do, we can update and use that candidate. If they don’t, we create a new candidate. Once we have a candidate, we can create the job application inside Vincere. All this happens in less than a second, giving you almost real time application data inside Vincere.
We also have many more features other than a kick ass job board, check out our other Vincere API products.